Faucet.



G. E. SWYNEY.

FAUCET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 7. 1911 1,1 17,723, Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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GEORGE E. SWYNEY, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

FAUCETQ Application filed March 7, 1911.

To all ltllOIIt it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SWYNEY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to faucets, and has for its primary object the provision of a novel construction permitting of the ready substitution of valves of different types.

A further object resides in providing a construction of this type which can be either used alone or connected with a companion faucet for discharge in common therewith.

WVith the above and other objects in view, to be referred to as my description progresses, the invention consists in the construction, arrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter described and succinctly defined in my annexed claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views: Figure 1 is a fragmentary section of a wash stand equipped with my improved faucet. Figs. 2 and 3 are longitudinal sections of substitute plugs for the faucet.

Referring to the drawing by numerals of reference, 1 indicates a wash basin or bowl, as for example of the stationary type, the same being provided with an upwardly projectin extension or back 2, formed with a suitab e opening for reception of the faucet 3. Faucet 3 comprises a casing 4 which projects on opposite sides of extension or back 2 and has its projecting end portions externally screw threaded to receive clamping nuts 5 which are normally set up to impinge said extension or back. The projecting rear end portion of easing 4 is suitably screw threaded, as shown, for connection with either of the usual hot or cold water pipes, as will be readily understood. Casing 4 is provided in its forward endportion. with a chamber of greater diameter than its intake opening 4, thereby providing an internal shoulder 6 on which a removable plug 7 is normally seated and removably held by a,

cap nut 8, threaded on the projecting end portion of casing 4. Plug 7 constitutes a casing for a valve 13, and is provided with inlet and outlet ports 7*, 7 respectively, the former of which registers with intake opening 4' and the latter being formed in the side Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

Serial No. 612,930.

wall of plug 7 and communicating with an external annular groove 9 thereof, which groove is comparatively wide to thereby also communicate with diametrically opposite threaded openings 10, 10' in either of which a screw closure plug 11 is adapted to be engaged, the said openings 10, 10 being provided in casing 4 between the adjacent clamping nut 5 and cap nut 8, to thereby be normally disposed forwardly of extension or back 2.

In the construction shown in Fig. 1, closure plug 11 is seated in opening 10, and a removable spout 12 seated in opening 10, the said spout projecting downwardly and forwardly for directing the water for discharge into the underlying basin or bowl 1. In the form of valve mechanism shown in Fig. 1, plug 7 is provided with an internal valve seat 14 and valve 13 is controlled for operation toward and from the same through the medium of a stem 15 having threaded engagement in plug 7, as shown.

In Figs. 2 and3 I have illustrated substitute or interchangeable plugs which can be readily positioned in casing 4 without requiring removal of the latter from the wash stand or other support on which it may be secured, these plugs carrying various types of valve mechanisms which I will now proceed to describe. In the construction shown in Fig. 2, plug 7 is formed with an external valve seat 14 for engagement with a spring closing valve 13. A spindle 15 having diametrically opposite engaging parts 16, as for example rollers, for engagement with respective cam tracks 17 as is well understood, engages the stem 18 of valve 13' for opening the latter. In Fig. 3, I have shown a valve 13 of slightly modified form. This valve is however, spring operated toward its seat 14" as in the construction shown in Fig. 2, and manually operable in the reverse direction, the engaging parts 16 of spindle 15" engaging in tracks 17 in the form of cam grooves, as contra-distinguished from the cam tracks 17.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of Amer- 10a, is:

A faucet comprising a substantially cylindrical casing provided at one end with an inlet port, an internal shoulder around said port, the opposite end of said casing having a pair of outlet ports spaced circumferentially from each other a closure for either of said ports, a removahle'hollow cylindrical plug snugly fitting in the bore of said casing, said plug having inlet. and outlet ports a closure for one end of said casing, said closure engaging said plug and holdin it seated on said internal shoulder, said p ug formed with a peripheral groove communicating with the outlet ports of the plug and with both of the outlet ports of the casing, 10

a valve for the inlet port of the plug, and

means for securing the casing in position.

Signed at Seattle, Washington this 25th day of February 1911.

GEORGE E. SWYNEY.

Witnesses:

CHAS. P. HARRIs, H. R. LEWIS. 

